# Obsidian Automation

A skill for Obsidian knowledge bases: creates notes from templates, adds internal links and reads the link graph. Useful if you keep a Markdown wiki.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4800 installs · ★ 540
- Author: Claude Office Skills
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-01-31
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/obsidian-automation

## What it does

The skill tells the agent how to work with an Obsidian vault: it creates daily and meeting notes from templates, fills in dates and filenames, and adds tags. Links follow rules — a mention of a person becomes a link to that person's note, and if the note is missing, the skill creates it.

Inside are templates (daily note, meeting, Zettelkasten note, book note), auto-linking rules with alias support, and Dataview query examples: tasks due today, meetings from the past week, a project dashboard. Graph analysis is covered too — finding notes with no incoming links and suggesting connections by content similarity.

It needs the `notes-mcp` MCP server with the `obsidian_create_note`, `obsidian_search`, `obsidian_link` and `obsidian_template` tools. Without it the skill can neither create notes nor search the vault, so check that first.

## Requirements
- Works with: Obsidian

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add claude-office-skills/skills --skill obsidian-automation -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/obsidian-automation/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add claude-office-skills/skills --skill obsidian-automation -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add claude-office-skills/skills --skill obsidian-automation -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install claude-office-skills/skills obsidian-automation
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add claude-office-skills/skills --skill obsidian-automation -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills --path obsidian-automation
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add claude-office-skills/skills --skill obsidian-automation -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills/tree/HEAD/obsidian-automation/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- create a daily note with a fixed structure and links to neighbouring days
- build a meeting note with agenda, attendees and action items
- find orphan notes and suggest connections for them
- turn @mentions into links to person and project notes
- pull tasks due today or meetings from the week via Dataview

## Example prompts
- Create today's daily note using the daily_note template
- Make a meeting note for the release planning call, attendees from the last email
- Find notes with no incoming links and suggest what to link them to

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: Obsidian Automation
description: Automate Obsidian knowledge management, note linking, and personal knowledge base workflows
version: 1.0.0
author: Claude Office Skills
category: productivity
tags:
  - obsidian
  - notes
  - knowledge-management
  - markdown
  - pkm
department: content
models:
  - claude-3-opus
  - claude-3-sonnet
  - gpt-4
mcp:
  server: notes-mcp
  tools:
    - obsidian_create_note
    - obsidian_search
    - obsidian_link
    - obsidian_template
capabilities:
  - Note creation
  - Knowledge linking
  - Template application
  - Graph exploration
input:
  - Note content
  - Search queries
  - Template configurations
  - Link patterns
output:
  - Created notes
  - Linked knowledge
  - Search results
  - Graph insights
languages:
  - en
related_skills:
  - notion-automation
  - deep-research
  - meeting-notes
---

# Obsidian Automation

Automate Obsidian knowledge management and personal knowledge base workflows.

## Core Capabilities

### Note Creation
```yaml
note_templates:
  daily_note:
    filename: "{{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}"
    folder: "Daily Notes"
    template: |
      # {{date:dddd, MMMM D, YYYY}}
      
      ## Morning Intentions
      - [ ] 
      
      ## Tasks
      - [ ] 
      
      ## Notes
      
      ## Evening Reflection
      
      ---
      [[{{date:YYYY-MM-DD|-1d}}|← Yesterday]] | [[{{date:YYYY-MM-DD|+1d}}|Tomorrow →]]

  meeting_note:
    filename: "Meeting - {{title}} - {{date}}"
    folder: "Meetings"
    template: |
      ---
      date: {{date}}
      attendees: {{attendees}}
      tags: meeting
      ---
      
      # {{title}}
      
      ## Agenda
      
      ## Notes
      
      ## Action Items
      - [ ] 
      
      ## Follow-ups
      
      [[Meetings MOC]]
```

### Smart Linking
```yaml
auto_linking:
  rules:
    - pattern: "[[Person/{{name}}]]"
      trigger: "@{{name}}"
      create_if_missing: true
      
    - pattern: "[[Project/{{project}}]]"
      trigger: "#proj/{{project}}"
      
  backlink_suggestions:
    enabled: true
    min_mentions: 2
    
  alias_support:
    - "[[Machine Learning|ML]]"
    - "[[Artificial Intelligence|AI]]"
```

### Dataview Queries
```yaml
dataview_examples:
  tasks_due_today:
    query: |
      ```dataview
      TASK
      WHERE !completed AND due = date(today)
      SORT due ASC
      ```
      
  recent_meetings:
    query: |
      ```dataview
      TABLE date, attendees
      FROM "Meetings"
      WHERE date >= date(today) - dur(7 days)
      SORT date DESC
      LIMIT 10
      ```
      
  project_dashboard:
    query: |
      ```dataview
      TABLE status, due, priority
      FROM #project
      WHERE status != "completed"
````
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